Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Foyran, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Foyran
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74959, -7.30581
- SMR number
- WM001-038----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on top of a drumlin-like ridge running NW-SE overlooked by higher ridge to W. No surface remains visible of moument on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. Monument described by ASI in 1973 as 'small almond shaped enclosure (dims. 15m NE-SW x 9m NW-SE) bounded by a slight bank (Wth 2.8m; H 0.35m) with vague suggestion of a fosse outside it. The long axis is NE-SW and the short axis is NW-SE. The interior is smooth and almost level. No visible trace of an entrance but the bank is very slight' (ASI Field Report 30/07/1973).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.